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I'm going to keep this post updated with parties from Affiliate Summit West 2012 as they are announced. You can check back when you're at the summit too so you don't miss anything. Saturday January 7th Sunday January 8th StackThatMoney Meetup - The Hangover Hotel Room @ Caesars Palace - 4-7pm Aff Playbook - Ads4Dough - Dream Marriage @ Palms Place Hotel & Spa (Penthouse) - 7:30pm-10:30pm ShareASale Under the Stars Party - Chateau Nightclub @ Paris Hotel - … [Read more...]

We are continuing our contest for a free Gold Pass to Affiliate Summit West 2012. Affiliate Summit is the best affiliate marketing conference out there, held on Jan 8-11th 2012 in Las Vegas. Here's how you can win a Gold Pass: Comment on the blog, on any post. All comments will be entered into a random drawing to select a winner. The more comments, the more entries you get! Link to a post on Daily Conversions and automatically get 10 entries. Just send an email to … [Read more...]

If you are an affiliate network you might be saying to yourself that it varies by company to company. If you are an affiliate you might be saying to yourself that you have no idea because different affiliate managers do drastically different things, with different approaches. Here are a few things that are crucially important in the role of an affiliate manager: Helping you to make more money This includes everything from campaign optimization, to support, to getting you a better … [Read more...]

Correctly using comments can lead to exponentially more traffic for your site. I use it here on Daily Conversions and I've done it on experimental sites as well. Now, comments are not the only part of this. It's about using social comments, like Facebook's comment functionality. We may integrate that here on Daily Conversions (again) pretty soon. There are pros and cons of social comments vs regular comments. PROS: Friends of people that read your site will see their friends … [Read more...]

The way companies use Experts is probably one of the most incorrectly used of all marketing tactics that I've seen online. This all applies to affiliate marketing, affiliate networks as well as totally different businesses. Most companies seem to think that simply showing that their prices are better (or payouts are higher) or that their product is better (offers convert better) is going to make them beat their competition. The Expert (Witness) A "witness", sometimes an expert in a … [Read more...]

Time and time again people are asking me about the "secrets" of affiliate marketing. They ask me if something they heard is true or false. The time is here to tell you anything you ever wanted to know about affiliate marketing, the brutal truth. Let's go in the order of the most common questions I get from newer affiliates.   Question: Do people really make {insert random number} per day from affiliate marketing? Answer: The answer is generally a giant, YES. I wish I could … [Read more...]

CPA Tank has really impressed me recently. I met them up at Affiliate Summit East 2011 and they are doing VERY well and put a great impression on me. Vito Glazers is the mastermind behind the network. Vito spends a fair amount of time up in my neck of the woods in Hollywood, CA. What I love about CPA Tank is their confident marketing and brilliant owners. The tank just says it all.  I couldn't think of a better way to portray confidence, commitment, and running over or blowing a hole through … [Read more...]

Daily Conversions attended another great Affiliate Summit and Affiliate Summit East 2011 is officially on the books! The conference was fantastic to say the least and there were record numbers of affiliates, advertisers, affiliate networks, agencies, and more in attendance! A special shout out to LeadCola, Empyre Media, Affiliate Ball (amongst others) for having such great parties! There were a lot of interesting things that I noticed and information that I picked up about the state of the … [Read more...]

How to Negotiate With Affiliate Managers, Part I by Jason Yelowitz Jason Yelowitz is an Internet Business Broker and author of The Bathrobe Millionaire. Long ago I was the manager of an affiliate program I started for an automotive lead-generation company.  Later, and for years, I lived as a “super-affiliate” generating hundreds, and often thousands, of leads per day for various advertisers.  Once the advertisers became dependent on my leads, life was good.  I was able to maintain … [Read more...]

According to a December 2010 poll there are over 302 million mobile phones in use in the United States. Worldwide there are over 5 billion mobile phones in use. Yes, Billion with a B. There are roughly as many mobile phone users as Internet surfers, when you look at worldwide data. If you thought mobile was a trend or some kind of fad, think again. The numbers are just going up and up every year. In fact, it's my prediction that there will be more mobile device users than desktop computer users … [Read more...]